Ringotan: Learn Japanese Kanji

Ringotan

About this app

Learn Kanji by actually writing it!

Ringotan is the first app built from the ground up to teach you how to WRITE Japanese Kanji, not just read them. By combining advanced input detection with industry-standard SRS (spaced repetition) algorithms, Ringotan ensures you learn as fully and quickly as possible.

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Ringotan is free while in beta. We update frequently, so be sure to check back for new features!

Ratings and reviews

This is a very good app for learning kanji, but I feel that it's missing a key feature. You can select the order you learn from a bunch of presets, allowing you to follow along with popular textbooks, wanikanj, and other sources. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way insert a kanji into the schedule. If I learn a word outside Ringotan, it would be helpful if I could manually add its kanji to my reviews. Overall, it's a simple and amazing app. There's no reason to avoid it.

This is an excellent app for starting to learn to write (and by extension read) Japanese. The main feature that I would love to see added would be one where it doesn't snap each stroke to be more "correct" in between strokes. There is a way to make it so that while you are making the stroke it doesn't draw the corrected one, but as soon as I lift my stylus it replaces my stroke with the correct one.

It's better than the app I used to use (obenkyo). I love that it syncs with wanikani. I do wish there was a way to remove more of the "learning" steps; the ones where you see all of the stroke start / start+end dots is very visually cluttered and I find myself drawing kanji I already know by heart wrong. I also wish you could just use the wanikani English meanings as the prompt instead of a list of Japanese words—since there are so many homophones, it can be hard to know which kanji is expected.

What’s new

• Rewrote entire app with MAUI framework (this was required to continue releasing new versions - please report any bugs under Settings → Advanced!)
• Added 'Show Radicals' option
• [BUGFIX] Importing saves broken